They're in the home stretch for crowdfunding the reboot of the old Wing Commander series and it's looking amazing so far. If old time space sims are your thing, I'd recommend hopping over to the Star Citizen site and making your pledge.

You get a free ship regardless of your pledge amount. The more you pledged; the bigger the ship. I'd recommend going to the site and checking your account to make sure everything is in order; you can also see which rewards you're eligible for from there. Advice goes double if you pledged on the kickstarter site and not directly via robertsspaceindustries.com

No release date yet. We're still looking at probably 18 months - 2 years for the final product but they're saying the hangar module (check out all your ships interior/exterior) should be available later this summer and a basic dogfighting module before the end of the year.

If you're interested in this game but haven't yet pledged, next week is the deadline for getting all the cool bonus perks. The new website goes live at Noon today (6/28) followed by a 24 hour livestream from HQ. I suspect they'll have multiple promotions going on during that time.

They released another in-game video of one of the planetside areas. Still early pre-pre-pre alpha, but I think things are coming along. With the hangar release last week, the next piece is the dogfighting module, expected roughly end of 2013.

Star Citizen 2.0, the first chunk of the persistent universe is expected soon(tm). This will provide one full system to explore and fight in and will be the first implementation of the multi-crew ships (which is my personal favorite).